Young Adult

Young Adult

2011 · 94 min · EN · R · 5.8 (1,135 votes)
Dir. Jason Reitman · Starring Charlize Theron, Patton Oswalt, Patrick Wilson, Elizabeth Reaser, Collette Wolfe, Jill Eikenberry · Music Mateo Messina

Everyone gets old. Not everyone grows up.

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A divorced writer from the Midwest returns to her hometown to reconnect with an old flame, who's now married with a family.

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This film offers a cringeworthy yet compelling dive into a woman grappling with arrested development. It's a darkly humorous, often uncomfortable exploration of delusion and the painful pull of a past that refuses to let go, all wrapped in a sharply observed, melancholic realism.

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